by Alpha Omega Translations | Apr 21, 2016 | Translation Tools
By Sarah-Claire Jordan Being a translator is so much more than just being able to take a phrase in one language and regurgitate it in another. As anyone who has tried to translate something using only Google Translate will know, literal translation and machine...
by Alpha Omega Translations | Apr 1, 2016 | Translation Tools
By Sarah-Claire Jordan With the advent of such things as massive globalization, more and more government policies favoring one central language or dialect over many, and the Internet in general, it has been harder and harder for some languages and dialects to survive....
by Alpha Omega Translations | Nov 10, 2015 | Translation Tools
By Sarah-Claire Jordan It would probably be useful to start out by explaining exactly what “linguistics” means. Linguistics, to put it simply, is the study of languages, but in a scientific way. This means not just looking at the meaning of words in a language, but at...
by Alpha Omega Translations | Jun 8, 2015 | Translation Tools
By Sarah-Claire Jordan Computers and endangered languages is probably not the first combination to come to mind when you’re thinking about things that work well together. Using a computer does involve language, and computers have their own languages or “codes” used to...
by Alpha Omega Translations | Nov 17, 2014 | Translation Tools
By Andrea Musumeci General theory of translation has notoriously suffered the blow inflicted by the inability of scholars to find a homogeneous academic dialect. James S. Holmes feared that this lack of cooperation could confine translators to a status of “glorified...
by Alpha Omega Translations | Oct 13, 2014 | Translation Tools
By Maeva Cifuentes Sometimes people tell me how easy I have it as a freelance translator: I can work in the comfort of my own home, on my own time, and maybe even in sweat pants if I feel like it. Despite the fact that we do a lot more than reading and writing...
